Spell A Day

Honor the Goddess Ceres

Spell Date: Saturday, April 12, 2014

Color of the day: Blue

Incense of the day: Ivy

Today is the first day of the festival of Ceres, the Roman goddess of grains and crops. Ceres represents the fertile earth; she pushes the sprouts from their seeds and offers the promise of an abundant harvest to come.
Set your altar with bread, milk, and honey, and a vase of poppies in honor of Ceres. Light a beeswax candle and visualize endless fields of golden grain. Grain symbolized abundance for the Romans; bread and grain were even used to pay soldiers. It was the measure of success. As you meditate on this, you may recite this blessing,